As a fan of miss Lane, she doesn't disappoint, she's terrific... but in this Frank Capra wannabe, the story is poorly written and certainly nothing special. It starts out well, but when characters act in an incredibly stupid way....it makes you just say, "no, no, no".
1. When the lawyer chases down Priscilla in the dept. store, he only had to tell her that he had an inheritance check for her right from the start, particularly when she tells him to get lost. He finally does this on a second visit, but he should have been smarter initially....or rather the script should have been smarter.
2. Priscilla loves the wrong guy. Reagan is immature, jealous and pushes her away enough so that she should know she could do better. You wind up rooting for the lawyer instead of the brooding pain in the rear.
3. OK...she's naïve about taxes, but she's upset that even after she gives away a lot of her money....which was the sensible and cool thing to do...she's upset that she has gained interest. It's funny in a way but c'mon. She could have kept it all in the bank and leave it there in case....or setup a fund for the needy.
4. At the end, the lawyer is all smiles...."I am the guy that people hang around with until they meet the person they love". That's sad...but that's the "happy" ending.
5. The sequel to this would be her and Reagan struggling in squalor and her regretting that she didn't keep some of the money. I know the idea that money doesn't buy happiness...and that's true. But, it would have been much cooler if she just kept the money and didn't tell him. To her benefactor, whispering "Hey, hold on to it for me, just in case". The best thing in the movie was her mother, daughter relationship she gained with the benefactor. Good writing never has the characters behave in an unrealistically stupid way. Oh, WB had this thing where they would have young struggling composers create a "symphony of the city" as part of the plot (City for Conquest is one example). So someone at WB would write a horrible imitation of Rhapsody in Blue and stick it in the movie where the composer would either fail or succeed but also always wound up selling out and writing pop music.